Dear reader,
I thank you for your interest in my story. What you are planning to read is something that attempts to stand out from other stories in the Dragon Ball Z category.
This story is about other surviving Saiyans besides those known in canon. I realize this has been overdone so much that it might be considered incredibly boring and unoriginal. However, this is why I attempted to make it interesting again.
The main focus of the story will be on a small group of original characters. Some canon characters do appear, but only on the sidelines. All events of this story fit in the Dragon Ball story. This means canon events are exactly the same as in the source material. My story explores what unknown events could have happened elsewhere in the universe. Note: Earth will not appear in this story.
I also did not use a standard quoted dialog structure in an attempt to present a less commonly used storytelling perspective.
Keep in mind that English is not my first language and so I do not claim to have corrected every mistake yet. If there are any mistakes or inconsistencies in this story, let me know and I will correct them.
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Chapter 1: The escape
Somewhere in the vast deserts of planet Vegeta, there was a small lake surrounded by an oasis. The oasis had been uninhabited until today. It had now been claimed by three humanoid creatures with monkey-like tails: three Saiyans. They consisted of two parents and their son. All three Saiyans were wearing clothing made out of animal skins. The father was a tall and muscled man with short black hair; a fairly typical looking Saiyan. He was lying down in the grass on his back, with his eyes closed, seemingly asleep. The mother had a much smaller and more slender physique than the man. She had long and bushy dark hair with a bluish hue. She was lying in the grass close to the man, with her head resting on his chest, while also being seemingly asleep. A short distance away from them was a young boy with a short and stocky body, who was having a lot of fun by himself. He was punching the trunk of a large tree until all the fruits had fallen out, and then started to eat them one by one. The two suns were shining brightly, the oasis was theirs, and the three of them were free of any worries or obligations. There could not be a more beautiful day than this.
This idyllic scene soon faded away when something began making a beeping noise. The father awoke in his bunk bed, and resisted the urge to crush his beeping scouter that was sitting on his nightstand. He opened his eyes to find a white and nearly empty room around him. His body and face had become scarred, his hair had become thin and it had receded about halfway his head. His wife and son were nowhere to be seen. There was nothing in the room that indicated that they had ever even existed. All the father had left were his memories. At least he had proof that he himself existed. There was a certificate on one of the walls that declared that he, Ullicu, had been granted the title of baron by King Vegeta for showing exceptional loyalty and bravery during the Saiyan civil war. Ullicu believed he had deserved the honor, but not for the reasons that were mentioned.
On another wall, there was a screen that showed a list of missions. It was a list of pending planet purging missions, which were still in the pool, waiting to be selected by an attack squad. Ullicu was not a permanent member of any team or squad. He usually took on missions if a squad was a member short. When going on a mission, he kept to himself most of the time and accepted the orders of the squad leader like a loyal dog. He wasn't looking for excitement, adventure, honor, or new challenges. He just wanted to make a living, and fighting was the only skill he had. Right now, he wasn't in the mood to accept another mission. His head hurt, and he wasn't even sure if it was morning or evening, since he usually slept whenever he could afford to do so, regardless of the time of day. He felt like he needed a drink, and decided to head towards the nearest bar.
Ullicu was sitting alone at a table in the back, minding his own business, when he heard a table being knocked over. Only half interested, he looked over his shoulder to see what was going on. He saw a warrior, known as Bardock, getting up. Bardock's face was covered in blood and his armor was partially destroyed. It looked like he was half dead. When he heard Bardock mention the name Frieza, Ullicu snapped back to reality. He tried to listen to what Bardock was saying, while the other Saiyans in the room made fun of the beaten warrior. Bardock insisted that Frieza was coming for them, that the tyrant had become scared of the Saiyans and wanted them all dead. He even admitted that due to Frieza's men, his whole squad was now dead. Ullicu knew that Frieza was not to be underestimated. The Saiyans were nothing compared to the unbelievable power of Frieza, or even some of his henchmen. Ullicu had once witnessed Frieza destroying a Saiyan with a simple blink of his eye. If what Bardock said was indeed true, then the whole Saiyan race was in danger. It then shocked Ullicu to find out that none of the other Saiyans in the room took Bardock's story seriously. Before Ullicu could respond however, Bardock proclaimed that he was going to try to stop Frieza himself, and promptly left the room.
Ullicu tried to think fast about what he should do. Should he follow Bardock and help him take on Frieza? No, that would only be suicide. His own power level of 5500 wasn't going to make much of a difference. Bardock was already dead. Maybe he could try and convince the Saiyans in the room in a more subtle way, but he didn't see any reason why they would believe him anymore than Bardock. Ullicu's status as a titled second class warrior might influence some, but certainly not those who were still making jokes about the story they had just heard. Ullicu then quietly got up and walked towards the exit without drawing any attention to himself. Since there was no one in the bar he really knew well, nobody bothered to ask him where he was going. Once he had left the room, he increased his pace to the point of running. He didn't want to waste any more time. He had thought up a plan: to gather and convince as many open-minded Saiyans as he could find, and then to get as far away from Frieza as they could. In his eyes, he was not running away from a battle, he merely wanted to make sure that when the time was right, there would still be at least some Saiyans left to take on Frieza. Right now, it wasn't going to be a battle; it was going to be a slaughter.
While he was running through the corridors, thinking about where he should go to find a single person who would believe him, someone suddenly appeared from behind a corner. He barely managed to stop in time to avoid crashing into her. When he had finally come to a halt, the young woman stared at him for a moment, before nervously smiling and apologizing. She had short hair, kind eyes, and wore armor with a grey color scheme. Ullicu's first impression was that she wasn't a warrior, but a worker. Nevertheless, he noticed the Saiyan tail wrapped around her waist. He then told her that they were in imminent danger and needed to leave the planet at once. She believed him right away, and decided to join him. Ullicu wasn't sure whether it was because he looked very convincing, or because she was just that naïve. Whatever the case was, the most important thing was that he had found someone.
Ullicu and the young woman, Chayandi, now exited one of the corridors that led to a landing platform. On the platform, there were several people. Three of them were Saiyans and two others were locally stationed henchmen of Frieza. The three Saiyans consisted of a man and two women. Ullicu had met one of them before. It was Tidane, a young third class warrior. Ullicu had supported her squad on a mission a few days ago. He trusted her, and she trusted him. His few words and the look on his face persuaded Tidane to go with them. She did not believe Ullicu would make up something like this. Ullicu then ordered the two men of Frieza to alert nearby Saiyans of the impending attack, and to recommend evacuation. At the same time, he thought of what little difference it would make. He imagined Frieza and his most elite henchmen landing on Planet Vegeta and blasting away entire cities. Though initially hesitating, the two henchmen acknowledged the order when Ullicu raised his voice at them. They then ran inside the nearby building and disappeared out of view.
At the landing platform, there were enough space pods for the five Saiyans. Instead of focusing on convincing the others, Ullicu decided to start plotting a course for them to take, after leaving the planet. To do this, he needed to know where Frieza was right now, and promptly used his scouter to find the highest power level in the area. Right before the blue glass shattered, as the device overloaded, he read a power level of about 22.000. It didn't seem like the counter would have stopped anytime soon. However, the scouter had succeeded in finding the location of the power level. It was somewhere up in the red sky. It seemed that Frieza's ship was already approaching the planet, and almost entering the atmosphere. This was sooner than Ullicu had expected. If they wanted to make a clean escape without being tracked, then they needed to go right now. There wasn't any more time to get more warriors to join them, so he continued to set a course. The course he had in mind would take them to the far side of the planet, while still flying through the atmosphere. When the planet would be in between Frieza's ship and their space pods, they could leave without being tracked.
Meanwhile, the rest of the group had noticed Ullicu's scouter exploding. To Tidane, this was confirmation of the fact that Ullicu was serious about what he had said. The others, the young male warrior Tarnece and his mother Sorra didn't think much of it. However, when Tidane was about to enter her space pod, Tarnece suddenly made the decision to join the group. This surprised his mother, who grabbed him by the collar of his armor and demanded to know what he was doing. Tarnece pulled himself free from her grip and told her that he was free to go wherever he wanted, and that he did not need to explain himself to her. He then boarded another space pod. His mother Sorra sighed, and mumbled to herself that she had made Tarnece's late father a promise not to lose track of their rebellious son. That was why she too decided to join the group.
When the five of them had boarded their pods, Ullicu told them to synchronize their computers with the course he had programmed. A moment later they were ready for take-off. The doors of the pods closed, and all at once the five pods launched into the sky. They made their way to the other side of the planet within only a few minutes of time, and quickly left the atmosphere. Ullicu then remembered something very important. He used the communicator of his pod to order the others to remove and destroy their scouters to eliminate the final way they could be tracked.
In the meantime, high above the surface of planet Vegeta, Bardock had already fought his way through the masses of henchmen, who were protecting Frieza's ship. At that moment, Frieza decided to come out and take care of the mess himself. Bardock, confident in his abilities, claimed that the Saiyans no longer worked for the tyrant, and that they were now free of his rule. What he didn't know, was that King Vegeta and his elite warriors had similarly attempted to assassinate Frieza. However, that had failed horribly, and the king had been killed only a few minutes earlier. Bardock now launched his most powerful attack, the Final Spirit Cannon, at Frieza. Just as it was about to hit him, the tiny energy ball on Frieza's finger began to grow exponentially and the tyrant started laughing like a maniac. Much to Bardock's disbelief, his own attack was swallowed by the enormous yellow sphere of energy.
Frieza then fired the ball at Bardock with a simple finger movement. It consumed the Saiyan warrior, along with many still loyal henchmen. But it wasn't over just yet. The ball was so powerful, that it continued to move towards the planet. A few seconds later, it entered the atmosphere with a loud thundering sound. Even the surface of the planet couldn't stop it. And so it drilled its way through the outer crust and into the mantle. Everyone who was still on the planet, Saiyans and other members of the planet trade, could only wonder for a few seconds as to what was happening. Before they even knew what was going on, they perished, as the disintegrated core of the planet exploded, which caused the entire planetary surface to shatter like it was made of glass. The entire planet was now reduced to being merely pieces of debris. Frieza, being unaffected by the impacting debris, was still laughing maniacally, enjoying the fireworks that his powers had brought forth.
It only took a few seconds for the lightning fast shockwave to catch up with the escaping pods. All five Saiyans felt the turbulence, but only one of them knew that this had to be the direct result of Frieza's power. Ullicu looked out the front window of his pod, and noticed a large meteor swiftly passing the group. He was unsure of the origin of the meteor, but he knew that it was a bad sign. There was a part of him that believed their planet had been completely destroyed. But he had no proof. Preoccupied with his thoughts, he used the pod communications system to tell the rest to activate their hibernation systems in order to save the resources of their pods. A moment later, he did the same.
The beeping of an alarm made Ullicu realize that he was awake again. The ship's computer had interrupted his hibernation state to inform him that they were approaching the targeted planet. He looked at the display for the clock and calendar. About eight hours had passed. A dark, greenish sphere had appeared right in front of the pods. As far as Ullicu knew, it was a barren, uninhabited and uninteresting planet, but it had breathable air, so it would be a good place for them to regroup. The pods entered the atmosphere and created five craters shortly thereafter.
When all of them had exited the pods and gathered, there was some confusion among them about the origin of the shockwave they had felt. Ullicu tried his best to hide his belief that the planet might have been destroyed, by claiming they had felt the effects of flying through the tail of a high speed comet. There was something about the way he said it that made Tidane suspect he was hiding something. She asked him why, after telling the truth, he would start lying now. Ullicu insisted that he was not lying; he was simply theorizing what could have been the cause of the turbulence. He also told her that whatever she thought had happened, there simply was no proof. Tidane then bluntly stated that she believed that their home planet had been destroyed. Sorra and Tarnece immediately countered by claiming that that was impossible. The only one who didn't involve herself in the discussion was Chayandi, who was quietly sitting on the ground, staring at the sky. Tidane then suggested they contact the main communications tower on planet Vegeta to put this discussion to rest.